Fire Starter Festival is a two-week festival of collaborative learning events, illuminating creative, challenging and innovative ways in which we can all transform ourselves, our organisations and the wider system. It will be held from 28th January to 10th February 2019

Our objective is:

• to nurture people in Irish society who have been 'bright lights' in leading positive change in Ireland (in supporting individuals, we also recognise new colleagues with whom we can cooperate in support of creating new cultural, economic and social practices)
• to share methods that integrate whole system learning and lend to smooth and natural growth
• to promote Theory U as a tool for implementing such a change

Our Intention

For more info on the Fire Starter Festival visit the FSF Scotland Website.

Táimid ag lasadh tine in Eireann (We are lighting a fire in Ireland)

Check out our final festival event list. 30 events covering the whole of Ireland!!! We are inspired by the response and the creativity. Abú.

Events include:

• Getting Unstuck using Social Presencing Theatre
• Sensory Explorations in Garvagh Forest.
• Mindfulness - It’s a Walk in the Park!
• Fathers Matter Too
• Inspiring Inishowen
• A Learning Journey to Imagine a Future Ireland
• I dtreo An Baile Nua ó Chill Choca - Towards the new town from the church of Coca

Check out our Events Page for more details.

On behalf of the Fire Starter team in Scotland we wish you and all the fire starter hosts good luck for the coming festival. It’s amazing what a small group of people, like yourselves with few resources, other than your passion, creativity and fiery spirit, have managed to achieve. In these complex and difficult times, we need the fire to spread, illuminating all the ways in which we can all create the fires of change across our mental and physical borders.

We have been impressed not only by the sheer number of events you have created, but the diversity of topics, and the breadth of locations across Ireland. This feels like the spark of a vibrant, imaginative Fire Starter Ireland Festival and we look forward to working collaboratively in the future.

Good luck and please send us your photos, reflections, blogs etc. so we can share on our website.

Karen Lawson, Collaborative Learning Lead, Scottish Government

For more info on the Fire Starter Festival visit the FSF Scotland Website.

We are a group of like minded individuals who have come together through Theory U. We are Nadine McCarthy, Chris Chapman, Kasia Odynokow, Jimmy D'Arcy, Valerie Jackman, Kathleen O'Hara Farren and Niamh Beirne

Find out more about us and contact us here